There are some minor signs, such as: relaxation of the facial muscles (which produces the staring eye and gaping mouth of the ‘Hippocratic countenance’), as well as a loss of the curves of the back, which becomes flat by contact with the bed or table; discoloration of the skin, which takes on a wax-yellow hue and loses its pink transparency at the finger-webs; absence of blistering and redness if the skin is burned (Christison’s sign); and failure of a ligature tied round the finger to produce, after its removal, the usual change of a white ring, which, after a few seconds, becomes redder than the surrounding skin in a living person.